[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Mickie has met his untimely demise, huddled before a barrel of cold steel. Not being the most virtuous of sorts while alive, he finds himself waking up right at the bottom of Hell. Trapped between a monster and oblivion he makes a deal with a demon; to take the fiend out of Hell in exchange for the power to do so. Now, unless he wants to die again, Mickie will need to claw his way back out of the afterlife, and Hell does not take kindly to escapees.